The Federal Government has asked the international electricity customers Niger, Togo, and Benin Republics to pay up their outstanding seven million dollars debt because “electricity is not charity”.
The Chairman, West African Power Pool, WAAP Usman Gur Mohammed, whom reporters in Abuja accused of playing the big brother with Nigeria’s electricity to the countries, said Nigeria is also strict with the international customers just as the Nigerians in debt recovery.
Mohammed, who is also the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN recalled that on his assumption of office, the outstanding bills of the international customers were over 100 million dollars.
He stressed that Nigeria does not supply customers electricity for free, noting that the Federal Government disconnects the international customers just as it does to Nigerians when they owe electricity debts.
Mohammed said the Federal Government has now restricted its electricity supply to only contracted international customers. He added that Nigeria has insisted that the indebted international customers that were disconnected from the grid pay up their debts before they are reconnected.
